That's because 6 is dead-center on the band & thus less likely to get interference
from non-wifi device in adjacent RF spectrum. Use DD-Wrt & ramp the power level up a
few mW on Ch6, it helps!
Scott Sipe wrote:
If you change channel (which can definitely be a good idea if you're in
an area with interference/other networks, etc), I would generlaly stick
to channel 1,6, or 11. These are the only 3 channels that don't overlap
with other channels.
Not always straightforward though -- at my last apartment there were a
lot of wireless networks showing up on channels 6 and 11, so I changed
my wrt54g to channel 1. Problem is, laptops would just drop the signal
every so often, even though I saw no other networks on channel 1.
Putting back to channel 6 or 11 made the dropping stop.
Scott
On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:03 AM, JRS wrote:
Yep, That's how I also do my wireless setups.
Change the SSID, no broadcast, MAC address filtering,
and I also change the channel since everyone mostly
seems to just leave them on channel 6.. :)
If someone wanted to bad enuff, they could still get in,
but I have not had any issues yet. :)
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JRS
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